Team
Yann Lepape
Founder · Lead Portfolio Manager
Yann Lepape began his career in foreign exchange at Paribas before completing his doctoral research, where he was already using AI in the 1990s, well ahead of its time. He then spent several years at the French Ministry of Finance and the Treasury. In early 2007, he joined Oddo et Cie as a global macro strategist and, in December of that year, made a prescient call on a US recession amid widespread skepticism. In 2010, he moved to Oddo AM, where he managed balanced diversified strategies as well as cross-asset emerging market funds. From 2014 to 2018, under his leadership, performance ranked in the top quartile of the peer group. In 2018, he was recruited by Vontobel AM to join its flexible global bonds team, which managed up to EUR 2 billion. At the end of 2023, he left Vontobel and, a few months later, founded his own Switzerland-regulated advisory firm. He holds qualification in Finance from EM Lyon, one of the French Ivy League High Schools, and passed its PhD in International Economics at the CEPII (Aix-Marseille II). He developed at that time a disruptive approach of FX prices dynamics, mixing economics, crowd's behaviours and AI. He currently teaches Fixed Income, Asset Allocation and Behavioural Finance at EM Lyon.
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Founder · Chief AI Officer
Xavier de Bernede began his career in the early 1990s in derivatives markets and portfolio management, first at Ferri and then at Paribas. He later joined Ross Capital, a Bermuda-based hedge fund, before moving into entrepreneurship by founding Foundation Capital Strategies. There, he notably developed its flagship vehicle, The ANOVA Fund, a Japan and US long-short equity hedge fund, which reached peak assets under management of USD 1.2 billion and which he co-managed until 2006. Back in Europe, he founded Gaia Conseil S.A., an advisory firm serving family offices on complex transactions involving structuring, due diligence, risk management, private equity and quantitative strategies, before selling the business in 2011. In 2015, he founded Hadrian Advisors, a data science and artificial intelligence advisory firm. His background is distinguished by a rare combination of investment management, entrepreneurship and quantitative innovation. He holds qualifications from Harvard in data science, from Université Paris-Dauphine in applied economics, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. Alongside his business activities, he has also taught finance at Sciences Po, the University of Lille, ESAM and Paris-Dauphine, with a focus on alternative investments, risk management, behavioral finance and options.
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Founder · Quantitative Macro & Crypto PM
Dr. Joel Guglietta is a quantitative macro and crypto portfolio manager with over 20 years of experience. He holds a PhD in Econometrics & Quantitative Economics (from GREQAM / Aix-Marseille School of Economics, with Ecole Centrale of Marseille). He began his career as a financial economist, then moved to the sell side as a quant strategist, before transitioning into the hedge fund industry — working for top-tier hedge funds (Brevan Howard, Fortress/Graticule, among others) and investment banks (HSBC) across Asia.
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